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Peru: Draft of law allow the use of undercover agents in online child pornography cases (English and Spanish)

Published:
5/22/13 5:02 AM

The draft of Law (see text bellow) n ° 2196/2012 CR establishes the possibility that the prosecutor shall authorize the use of undercover agent in online child pornography cases.

The task may be performed, provided the prosecutor’s authorization, through the minor victim’s email and the social network access, as well as the defendant ´s, in both cases, in order to impersonate them to collect information for the criminal file. This law could be controversial in terms of safeguards because the decision hasn’t previous judicial control.